Songs in strange settings

[Mickeyboro]

A military band in Wimborne played Enola Gay by OMD. Took me a couple of minutes to work out what it was (melody played on xylophone). 
 

Can you beat this?

[Guest]

A long long time ago I was in a Thai restaurant in Salisbury. The music was on traditional Thai instruments. It took me several tracks before I realised that I was listening to Prince's greatest hits.

 

Edited December 27, 2022 by Ricky Rioli
completed sentences are better sentences

[TheGreek]

Visiting family in Cyprus "Careless Whisper" came on the radio. 

I  started to explain to my aunt that the singer was Greek to which she gave me a queried look.

The vocals came in...in Greek. 

Covered by a Greek artist. 

[Cato]

1 hour ago, Ricky Rioli said:

A long long time ago I was in a Thai restaurant in Salisbury. The music was on traditional Thai instruments. It took me several tracks before I was listening to Prince's greatest hits.

 

When I was a student in Plymouth I used to go to a Chinese restaurant that always used play Chinese language versions of British and American pop songs with Chinese instrumentation.

 

The one that sticks in my mind for some reason  is 'Like a Virgin'

Edited December 27, 2022 by Cato

[bass_dinger]

Blondies "Dreaming " played by a ukulele group. 

 

It lost all of the snap, bite, and fury of the original and sounded like the Swing Your Pants version of the song. It was rather refreshing and cute, in a postmodern jukebox way.

[Roger2611]

My wife and I went for dinner in a local restaurant and we noticed somewhere in the background was a lone guitarist playing an acoustic and singing gently along, nothing unusual until he launched into a fantastic rendition of Kraftwork's The Model...not a song I had ever considered as an acoustic guitar track!